The Lake House (novel) - Characters

Characters

Maximum (Max)

• Is 12 years old and is living a normal life, almost. She goes to school and is made fun of and mistreated. She constantly saves Matthew from bullies and is not used to her parents and their rules. When hit men from The Hospital attack her new home, she bands together with the rest of the flock and then goes off to find Kit and Frannie. Throughout the book, her relationship with Oz grows, to the point that she lays two eggs, produced from him at the end. She is described as "drop dead beautiful" by Oz; she thinks he's very handsome as well. At the end, she notes that she and the flock mature faster than normal humans and that, as a twelve year old, she is on par with Frannie and Kit, both of whom are in their thirties.

Matthew

• Is Max's younger brother, at age nine. He has problems with bullies, as he refuses to fight back. Max saves him, and he becomes more of a fighter after that. He witnesses Max and Ozymandias having 'sex' in the woods and rushes back to tell the adults about it, and remains mad at Max for some time.

Ozymandias (Oz)

• Is the same age as Max. His feelings for Max are revealed in this book, which lead to some sexual events with Max. He is killed by Hitmen working for "The Hospital", and Max swears to take revenge which she does.

Icarus (Ic)

• Is a bit younger than Max and Oz. He is blind, however it is revealed that this is a consequence of doctors at the School trying to surgically enhance his night vision. He has a talent for languages and playing the piano. He can perfectly mirror Frank Sinatra

Peter and Wendy

• They are four years old twins and are of Chinese descent. After they started living with their biological parents, they begin appearing in numerous advertisements, and they hated it. Both are named after characters in Peter Pan, just as Max is called Tinkerbell in the school.

Frances Jane and Ozymandias (Jr.)

• Max's children by Ozymandias's mating before he was killed. They are nearly stolen by Kane, but Max saves them. Frances Jane is named after Frannie, the Flocks adoptive mother.

Frannie

• A vet who helped rescue the children from the School. She wants to be the children's "mother" and is engaging in a custody battle for them. She is in love with Kit, often dryly noting the biological factors to her desire to make love with him. Her real name is Frances Jane.

Kit

• An FBI agent with a reputation for believing conspiracy theories (similar to Fox Mulder's). He helped Frannie rescue the children from the School and is fighting alongside her to regain custody of the children. He is in love with Frannie.

Dr. Ethan Kane

• The head of the Hospital and an extremely terrifying figure. According to Max, he was held in high regard at the School and pushed the study biotechnology even further than they did. He tries to kidnap the bird children, killing Oz in the process. He later tries to steal Max's eggs, telling her "I have seen the future...and it 'flies.'" At the end of the book, Max pushes him off of a ledge, fulfilling her promise to "break his neck."